What if the department takes their sweet time in providing the “reason” for the question being there?
What if they provide a reason and then some liberal judge declares it inadequate?
We’re running up against the clock here, folks.
Delay the census. The basic reason is that only citizens and any authorized visitors should be represented in Congress, and by extension, the Electoral College. Providing EC votes to illegal aliens is a way to collude with foreign governments to affect our elections, even if the illegals don’t vote in the election itself.
The president should have summoned Roberts on 1/21/17 and said “I know what Obama knows about you. Make it easy on yourself or hard. Doesn’t matter to me.”
What if conservatives in blue, high-immigrant states refuse to cooperate with a bogus census?
What if they provide a reason and then some liberal judge declares it inadequate?
We’re running up against the clock here, folks."
Yup!
Here's what needs to happen, for the citizenship question to be on the 2020 Census:
The fed gov:
(1)(a) gets the ruling we need in the lower court in a timely fashion or
(1)(b) gets a positive ruling back from this Scotus in a timely fashion when the lower court rejects the new explanation
and
(2) the fed gov then has enough time to print the updated forms before the census goes out.
If anyone at the top of an organization can get it done, Trump can. But this is still the Federal Government (Commerce Department) we are talking about here and there are still a number of things that have to go "our" way in order for this to happen.